Antiquarian and Collectors’ Books

WISDEN, John. Cricketer's Almanack. London: John Wisden & Co., and J. Whittaker & Sons and Sporting Handbooks, 1896-2018. 116 vols., 8vo (163 x 98mm.) Advertisements, photographic plates for earliest volumes (1896-1915), numerous illustrations. (Mild toning, occasional spotting, volume for 1899 with torn and loose preliminaries, original wrappers mostly bound in to the later cloth volumes.) Later brown cloth for volumes 1896-1913, 1915, 1917, 1920-33, 1935-37, 1940. Original card wrappers for volumes 1914, 1934, 1938-45, 1948, 1950-59, 1964-73. Original boards for volumes 1974-2018, dust-jackets. (Creases to spine, occasional wear to spine ends, volume 1899 disbound). - And five Wisden related volumes (including three Wisden anthologies). Note: a near complete run of Wisden almanack's for the years between 1896 and 2018, lacking seven volumes: 1897, 1899, 1900, 1916, 1918, 1946 and 1962 (121).

AFRICA. - Sidney Langford HINDE. The Fall of the Congo Arabs. New York: Thomas Whittaker, 1897. First edition, 8vo (225 x 134mm.) Portrait frontispiece, folding map. (Mild toning.) Original green cloth, gilt lettering to upper cover and spine (spotting to upper cover). - And thirty-seven further volumes relating to Africa (including C.W. Hobley's 'Bantu Beliefs and Magic', 1922, 8vo) (38).

LEWIS, C.S. The Four Loves. London: Geoffrey Bles, 1960. First edition, 8vo (201 x 129mm.) (Mild toning.) Original grey boards, dust-jacket. Provenance: Simon Gordon Clark (bookplate to the front pastedown). - And nineteen further volumes, many by C.S. Lewis (including 'The Abolition of Man', 1956, 8vo) (20).

BALL, Robert Stawell. An Atlas of Astronomy. London: George Philip & Son, 1892. 4to (209 x 176mm.) 72 plates, some tinted, with tissue-guards. (Occasional spotting to preliminaries and verso of plates.) Original blue cloth, elaborate gilt to spine and upper cover, g.e. (rubbing to extremities).

NELSON, T., & Sons (publisher). English Scenery. London, Edinburgh, etc., 1889. 4to (194 x 143mm.) 120 chromolithographed vignettes on 60 leaves. (Browning to margins.) Original cloth blocked in decorative gilt, brown and yellow, g.e. (some fading to boards, bumped to extremities).

BINDING. - BIBLE, In Dutch. Het Nieuwe Testament Ofte Alle Boeken Des Nieuwen Verbondts Onses Heeren Jesu Christi. Amsterdam: Johannes Allart, 1799. 12mo (135 x 81mm.) NT title with engraved vignette. (Browning, occasional corner creasing, lacking leaves before title *1.) [Bound with:] Het Boek der Psalmen. Amsterdam: Johannes Allart, 1799, 8vo (134 x 81mm.) Psalms with accompanying musical notation (collates to R12, lacking rear leaves). Contemporary tortoise-shell covers mounted onto original boards with ornate silver mounts and clasps (rebacked).

MILITARY. Regimental Roll of Honour of the Officers, Warrant Officers, N.C.O's & Men of the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) Who to Uphold Liberty and Justice in the World Laid Down Their Lives in the Great War, 1914-1918. [N.p.: n.d. but circa 1920]. Oblong 8vo (130 x 188mm.) Additional engraved title with regimental tartan to corner, matching tartan bookmark. (Mild toning.) Contemporary black morocco, bound by Maclehose, gilt ruled and regimental insignia to upper cover, g.e. Note: the 1st Battalion of the Cameronians were noted for being the regiment who refused to play football with the enemy on Christmas day, 1914.

NATURAL HISTORY. - Henry JONES. The Wildfowl Paintings. London: Threshold, Harrap, 1987. Limited edition, this being number 348 of 350 copies, oblong folio (342 x 425mm.) 60 tipped-in colour plates. Original blue half-morocco boards, gilt lettering to spine, blue cloth solander box (split to front corner, some marks). - And with an extra suite of plates.

SCOTT, Walter. The Border Antiquities of England and Scotland Comprising Specimens of Architecture and Sculpture, and Other Vestiges of Former Ages, Accompanied by Descriptions. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, et al, 1814-1817. 2 vols., 4to (267 x 202mm.) 2 additional engraved titles, 92 engraved plates. (Browning, spotting to plate margins and verso of plates.) Contemporary calf, tooled in blind and gilt to upper and lower covers (one board detached, another fragile, light rubbing). - And twenty-five further volumes related to antiquities and cathedrals (including volume one of 'The Antiquities of St. Peter's, or, the Abbey Church of Westminster', 1722, 8vo) (27).

THEATRE. - [Horace WALPOLE]. The Mysterious Mother, a Tragedy. Dublin: for John Archer, William Jones and Richard White, 1791. 8vo (178 x 113mm.) (Browning, occasional spotting.) Near contemporary green straight-grain morocco, gilt border, lettering to spine, g.e. (some fading, rubbing to extremities). - And twenty-seven further literary and historical volumes (including Clara Reeve's 'The Old English Baron: a Gothic Story', 1811, 12mo) (28).

HOWITT, William. The Student-Life of Germany… from the Unpublished Manuscripts of Dr. Cornelius. London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, 1841. First edition, 8vo (220 x 125mm.) 6 steel-engraved plates, numerous illustrations in the text, songs. (Paper repair to the half-title, corner of some leaves clipped, browning.) Later half-calf, black morocco lettering piece to the spine (light rubbing). - And twelve further volumes of historical and literary interest (including Charles Dickens's 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood', 1870, 8vo) (13).

RAILWAYS. - G.A. SEKON. A History of the Great Western Railway, Being the Story of the Broad Gauge. London: Digby, Long & Co., 1895. Second edition, 8vo (218 X 134mm.) Frontispiece, numerous illustrations. (Inscribed on half-title, tipped-in Coat-of-Arms verso of frontispiece, extra-illustrated with 2 illustrations on verso of plates, occasional small ex-library stamps.) Original cloth boards (rebacked, endpapers replaced, minor rubbing). - And twenty-four further volumes of train and railway related books (including E.O. Mawson's 'Pioneer Irrigation', 1904, 8vo) (25).

MILITARY. - Bisheshwar PRASAD (editor). Official History of the Indian Armed Forces in the Second World War… the Reconquest of Burma. Calcutta: Combined Inter-Services Historical Section, 1958-1959. 2 vols., 8vo (247 x 156mm.) Numerous illustrations and maps, some folding. (Some browning.) Original blue cloth (bumped to extremities), dust-jackets (corner loss to top of volume 1, ink reference numbers above titles on upper panels). - And thirty-two further volumes relating to the war in South East Asia (including from the same series the 'Defence of India: Policy and Plans', 1963, 8vo) (34).

MILITARY. - S. Woodburn KIRBY. The War Against Japan. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1957-1969. 5 vols., 8vo (242 x 158mm.) Numerous maps and plates, some folding. (Mild toning.) Original green cloth, gilt lettering to spines (lightly bumped spine ends), dust-jackets (volume 1 price-clipped, spotting to spine of volume 5, some browning) (5).

MILITARY. War With Japan. London: H.M.S.O., 1995. 6 vols. (in 4), 8vo (247 x 151mm.) Numerous charts and illustrations. Original blue cloth, gilt lettering to spines, dust-jackets. Note: also includes the separate map volumes. - And a further six volumes relating to the war against Japan (including 'Imperial Japanese Army and Navy Uniforms and Equipment', 1995, 8vo) (14).

POLITICS. The Parliamentary Register; or, History of the Proceedings and Debates of the House of Commons. London: for J. Almon and J. Debrett, 1780-1783. 14 vols., 8vo (227 x 129mm.) Folding charts. (Moderate browning, occasional creasing.) Contemporary half-calf (rubbing, some loss to spines). Note: comprises volumes 1-11, 15, 16 and 17. Provenance: Mr. Mitford (name inscribed to front pastedown). - And nine further related volumes (including two volumes of 'The Annual Register' for the years 1778 and 1780, 8vo) (23).

AFRICA. - W. Robert FORAN. A Cuckoo in Kenya, the Reminiscences of a Pioneer Police Officer in British East Africa. London: Hutchinson & Co., 1936. First edition, 8vo (228 x 147mm.) Frontispiece, numerous photographic plates, 24pp. of publisher's advertisements to rear. (Light spotting to title, toning.) Original green cloth (lightly bumped, marks to upper cover). - And nineteen further volumes relating to the history of Kenya and colonialism (including Frederick Courteney Selous's 'Sunshine and Storm in Rhodesia', 1896, 8vo) (20).

TRAVEL. - A. GALLENGA. Italy Revisited. London: Samuel Tinsley, 1875. 2 vols., first edition, 8vo (216 x 129mm.) (Browning, spotting to front and rear leaves.) Near contemporary red half-morocco (sunned to spines, rubbing). - And twenty-two further volumes of travel related books (including George H. Wathen's 'Arts, Antiquities, and Chronology of Ancient Egypt', 1843, 8vo) (24).

HERBERT, George. The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations. London: Nonesuch Press, 1927. Limited edition, this being number 570 of 1500 copies, 8vo (246 x 146mm.) Portrait frontispiece, title with decorative border. (Frontispiece offsetting to title, browning to front and rear endpapers.) Original red and grey brocade cloth, g.e. Provenance: E.A. Keay (bookplate to front pastedown). - And eight further literary volumes, most illustrated (including Matthew Arnold's 'The Scholar Gypsy', 1919, 4to) (9).